a new monument to Akhmatova in StPetersburg

[A Smith]

Dear colleagues,

Those of you who are teaching Akhmatova's Requiem might be interested to know
that today a new monument to Akhmatova was unveiled in St Petersburg. It was
created by Galina Dodonova; it is located on the Robespier Embankment
(Naberezhnaia Robesp'era) and it's designed in accordance with Akhmatova's poem
Requiem. The monument depicts Akhmatova looking  at the famous prison "Kresty"
mentioned in the poem. In addition to this faithful reproduction of the
would-be monument commemorating Akhmatova, the monument reproduces a passage
from the epigraph to Requiem. The full report can be watched on the First
Channel site:http://www.1tv.ru/news/n97377
You'll need to click on the photo of the monument in the left corner of the
article in order to watch it. The videoclip is very informative.

All best,
Alexandra Smith

Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Lecturer in Russian, 
Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies,
University of Sheffield, UK.

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